problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-06 Thread Timo Veith
Hi list readers, some of our users have the problem that their messages are beeing downloaded via pop multiple times. Some users even complain that they aren't able to delete the doubles as fast as they get the same ones as new ones again. They are using Outlook or Pegasus Mail. Maybe others a

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-06 Thread Timo Veith
Timo Veith schrieb: Hi list readers, some of our users have the problem that their messages are beeing downloaded via pop multiple times. Some users even complain that they aren't able to delete the doubles as fast as they get the same ones as new ones again. They are using Outlook or Pegas

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-06 Thread Joseph Brennan
Timo Veith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: some of our users have the problem that their messages are beeing downloaded via pop multiple times. Some users even complain that they aren't able to delete the doubles as fast as they get the same ones as new ones again. They are using Outlook or Pegasus

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-06 Thread Timo Veith
Joseph Brennan schrieb: Timo Veith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: some of our users have the problem that their messages are beeing downloaded via pop multiple times. Some users even complain that they aren't able to delete the doubles as fast as they get the same ones as new ones again. They are

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-06 Thread Sebastian Hagedorn
-- Timo Veith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> is rumored to have mumbled on 6. Dezember 2005 22:57:07 +0100 regarding Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times: I have searched the archive and found another thread. It describes the same problem. But no real solution ...

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-07 Thread Matthijs Mohlmann
Timo Veith wrote: > Hi list readers, > > some of our users have the problem that their messages are beeing > downloaded via pop multiple times. Some users even complain that they > aren't able to delete the doubles as fast as they get the same ones as > new ones again. > > They are using Outlo

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-07 Thread Cristian Mitrana
Timo Veith wrote: Joseph Brennan schrieb: Good! I didn't have a chance to ask about this yet. We're seeing this too, as we begin to put pop users on our new Cyrus system. Of course it only *can* happen when they leave on server. Could this be a database issue, where cyrus cannot recog

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-07 Thread Serge
Hi, I had similar situation in the past, it appeared that seen db was corrupted because /var got full, erasing seen files solved the problem. I think corrupted fs can cause it also. Thanks, Serge. On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 09:56 +0100, Matthijs Mohlmann wrote: > Timo Veith wrote: > > Hi list readers,

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
Some more on this. When a pop client does "leave on server", it has to compare what's on the server with a database it maintains locally. The key is something called UIDL, a unique identifier per message maintained by the server. The client sends a UIDL command and gets back a list of UIDLs. Th

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-07 Thread Timo Veith
Hi, a big thanks to all of you who answered. In particular the detailed answers. I will tell my users to upgrade their clients to the latest versions and/or patch levels and I hope that this action will help to prevent further occurences. It's show stopper. We just migratet from an ancient uw-

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-07 Thread Ken Murchison
Joseph Brennan wrote: Some more on this. When a pop client does "leave on server", it has to compare what's on the server with a database it maintains locally. The key is something called UIDL, a unique identifier per message maintained by the server. The client sends a UIDL command and gets ba

Re: problem with pop3d, messages can be downloaded multiple times

2005-12-07 Thread Joseph Brennan
Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If you can determine that its just a problem with varying length, I can change the output so that the UIDVALIDITY.UID format that we use for UIDL is padded with zeros to make it a fixed length (something like %010u.%010u). I do not have direct evidence